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New watercooled build coming…
We have a new mini-workstation/gaming build coming; here’s a couple of teaser pics from the first one: More to come! It’s a beautiful little thing 🙂
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Intel’s Socket 2011 vs. 1155/1156 – A size comparison
For those moving from 1155/1156/1366 you might be a little surprised at just how much bigger the new CPUs are; it’s little wonder that they require a twin-lever clamping system on the motherboard. Customer’s old CPU on the right (Intel i7-870, Socket 1156) and their new CPU on the left (i7-3820, Socket…
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How to test your system’s stability
If you’re overclocking or just unsure whether your system is performing properly a stability test can be quite helpful to determine just what’s going on. One of the most widely used and effective tests is Prime95; it’s lightweight, does a good job of stressing your CPU and RAM and will happily run for as long…
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Adding another disk to a ZFS mirror
I was asked how to add a disk into a ZFS mirror today; this is an easy one: # zpool attach [poolname] [existing disk] [new disk] …and done! The pool will begin to resilver with the new disk as part of the existing mirror. You might want to do this to replace a…
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SAS Cable Length for Norco 4224+M1015
This is a question we get asked reasonably often – what is the right SAS cable length for a Norco 4220/4224 chassis while using IBM M1015 HBAs? 50cm: Doable but puts a great deal of strain on the connectors, particularly on the card end. 60cm: Enough with some slack and no excessive pressure…
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Napp-it update: 0.8h
Napp-it has a new default build – 0.8h, mostly incorporating bugfixes and adding a couple of alert options. You can update from your napp-it->update menu. For more info see the changelog.
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HD6450 – Review for servers/non-3D workstations
The AMD Radeon HD 6450 is a low-end graphics card that’s perfectly suited to basic graphics duties such as you’ll need on a server or workstation board that lacks inbuilt graphics capabilities (on-CPU or a discrete chip). It’s flexible in output – VGA, HDMI and DVI – is more than powerful enough for everyday use…
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BIOS update: Asus P9X79 WS
For those customers with a workstation or server based on one of these boards you may be interested in the latest BIOS update. The most notable part of the update seems to be improved RAID mode compatibility. For the full list of updates and to download the update see the update page.
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Napp-it update: 0.8g
Napp-it has another update – this one is a little different as it adds the ability to encrypt pools on OpenIndiana and Illumian on ZFS v.28. You can update from the menu – napp-it->update. For more info see the changelog.